Tag: Travel

Since I was a teenager, I’ve always dreamt of visiting Africa. I had come across African Impact online and saw they offered incredible projects for volunteers. So this past July I decided to pack my […]

I wholly believe that a self-care and movement practice while traveling is important for good health ~ in mind and body. Physically, you are in a state of fluidity ~ moving often, experimenting with new […]

At home, we can be quite good concerning our sustainable practices. We have our go-to organic grocery shop, we recycle and we walk instead of going by car. While travelling, being sustainable can be more […]

‘One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.’ Since leaving the constructs of the week-by-week ethos – I have found an incurable desire to uncover the unfamiliar. Travel fuels this […]

Travel is so much more than just hopping on a plane or train to visit a destination. It can be so beneficial to your health and general wellbeing, it can challenge you, teach you, open your eyes to new things and allow you to learn so much more about yourself and the world around you. Here are my 7 reasons why I believe travel is a non-negotiable in life!

I love fashion. The colors, the fabrics, the art of it all, it’s epic. For almost five years now, I have worked vigorously to be able to be a part of that world as a fashion journalist. I started early, right before my freshman year of college, practicing my writing and style skills with a blog I created. After a couple of years, way too many late nights, and hundreds of emails, it began to turn into something of amazement. I was garnering readers, making fellow blogger friends, networking with publicists, collaborating with brands, and interviewing fashion up-comers. It gave me opportunities to accomplish dreams I never thought possible, such as attending fashion week in New York and other events. However, I recently hit a detour, around last winter to be exact.

I have been practising yoga for about a year and a half and it is my favorite thing to do in the whole world (apart from eating delicious vegan food). I learned how to do the poses by myself watching youtube videos from the amazing Tara Stiles. She is my favorite yogi. I remember in the beginning when I first started doing yoga and I saw a video of Tara doing those beautiful poses, practising with people and travelling all around the world and my dream was to be like her.

“You should travel alone at least once in your life”, a wellbeing blog stated. I read through it avidly as a girl described how travelling the world on her own had opened her eyes, as she met new people, learnt about other cultures, and made a living out of writing a travelling blog. I was so fascinated by this that I read as much as I could on her blog. “I want to travel alone” I said to my mom.

Some of the most fascinating architecture in Asia can be found in the continent’s religious buildings, be they temples, monasteries, or mosques. Asia, as the birthplace of most of the world’s major religions—including Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, among others—is a place with a long history of connection to the spiritual realm. As such, there can be no better place than Asia to find your Zen.

From where we sat the sun felt close. I watched the fresh cement crack in the heat. Below us, the setting concrete stretched down to the favelas. Through clouds I could see the stairs reach the hilltop. Every few steps sat an unlikely gathering of local Peruvians and Australian volunteers. We waited. The Australians had traveled the breadth of the Pacific Ocean for this purpose: three days of volunteer work in the favelas of Lima. We were assured that the stairs would provide access to healthcare, schooling and land rights. It was a good project. However, the longer we waited the clearer it became that it had a foundational flaw. That flaw was us.

I always like to think of travel as a privilege. You can either do it, or you can’t. Sometimes it may be because of bad timing, or financial reasons or sometimes it can be because of different types of travel phobias – such as fear of flying or crossing oceans. But, I personally think there is such rewarding benefits from taking a trip every now and then, whenever you can, and on whatever scale.